mousse

Meaning

Noun

1. An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
2. A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
3. A styling cream used for hair.
4. A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.

Verb

To apply mousse (styling cream).

Synonyms

froth

gel

hair gel

hair mousse

lather

spume

suds

head

elite

foam

cream

Pronounced as (IPA)

/muːs/

Etymology

From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.